Virlene's LTB eviction hearing is scheduled on Tuesday, September 23 at 9am. Log in to observe the hearing: bit.ly/ZLTBVideo145

A new essay by Phil Neel laying out the various levels and forms of revolutionary organization, the function limits of "sigils" and tactical leadership, and the two kinds of "invariance" in communist struggle. illwill.com/theory-of-th...

A reporter attributed to Ricardo Tranjan comments that falsely implied the Thorncliffe Park rent strike dragged on because tenants did not know who their landlords were. In fact, Starlight and PSP could not subdue tenants' organizing because it effectively targeted both landlords

'Philip Zigman says the fact that tenants got an acceptable agreement “speaks to the power of working class organizing"...residents have set an example that could encourage other Toronto tenants to organize and start their own rent strikes' www.torontotoday.ca/ontario-news...

About 100 households in East York have reached an agreement with landlord Starlight Investments, seemingly ending a lengthy public battle that saw a large group of working-class tenants withhold rent from Canada’s largest private landlord for two years.

Landlord knocks hundreds of dollars off rent increase after tenant stages protest

After the landlord allowed the roof at 2866 Keele Street to fall into disrepair, the City of Toronto ordered the repairs that Lingyan Lu is using as a basis to renovict tenants www.torontotoday.ca/local/real-e...

Great long-form journalism on how Nous consultants have hawked their standardized, corporate model of universities to a willing class of managerial administrators: "You can’t just blame the vampire. Their victims invited their own fate and paid handsomely for it." nationalpost.com/feature/how-...

As advocates laud Toronto's new renoviction by-law, tenants like Virlene and her neighbours at 2866 Keele are fighting a renoviction attempt by their landlord, Lingyan Lu

NEW: In a city with more than half a million renters, hostility between landlords and tenants often simmers just below the surface. But rarely do disputes become as heated and have such significant consequences for both sides as this one has. www.torontotoday.ca/local/real-e...

A notorious RCMP unit will be at the forefront of enforcing new laws in British Columbia that fast-track resource projects. @shirip.bsky.social and Tia Dafnos reveal B.C. will deploy the unit as it deregulates environmental laws and overrides Indigenous rights. breachmedia.ca/rcmp-unit-co...

#Breaking: Air Canada flight attendants’ union head defies back-to-work order: ‘If it means jail, so be it.’

⚡☎️PHONE ZAP TODAY: Support tenants at 2866 Keele facing renoviction. Join in calling and emailing their landlord Lingyan Lu to demand she withdraw the N13 eviction notices and do the roof and ceiling repairs while tenants remain in their homes.

"Starlight Investments increased the rate of eviction filings in acquired properties by an average of 3.9 times (or 220%) across the 10,129 suites they bought during our study period"

How Montreal’s predatory landlords are turning poverty into profit A new investigation by @zacharykamel.bsky.social reveals how landlords exploit vulnerable tenants, weaponize housing laws, and leave homes empty—all in the name of return on investment ricochet.media/justice/hous... #housingcrisis

“After tenants agreed to the landlord’s offer in principle, the landlord added the ‘non-disparagement’ clause, Sameer Beyan said.” www.thestar.com/news/gta/ten...

Homelessness in Toronto has doubled since 2021 and the number of working homeless is up four percent in the same period, according to the city's new survey numbers. Part-time work is now the third most frequently reported source of income among homeless people after OW and ODSP

New: 'Follow the liquidity: Monetary policy, spatial inequality and the Bank of Canada's emergency COVID-19 corporate debt programs.' We trace the BoC's corporate debt purchases spatially uneven effects and its bolstering of a financialized status quo. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Another Toronto high school is being accused of suppressing student voices after all Grade 12 quotes were removed from its yearbook over student submissions related to Palestine and Tibet.

Scoop: York University's president Rhonda Lenton has announced she will depart from the top job 18-months early. Her term has been marked by institutional expansion, but also by protest, a significant faculty strike in 2018, and recent program cuts --> www.torontotoday.ca/local/educat...

In Issue 7.1 #LongRead "Exploring the spatial composition of UK social housing", Nick Clare, Joe Kearsey & Shaun French discuss the challenges of organising in, against-and-beyond social housing, through insights from successful & unsuccessful campaigns. radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/explori...

Courageous youth speaking truth. It is exceedingly difficult as a high school student to challenge authority, as your day is literally structured around taking orders from petty tyrants.

Building on the model of "First We Take Columbia," a new short article offering 22 practical theses on the anti-ICE struggle in California and beyond. illwill.com/fire-and-ice

A nice review of Fictions of Financialization in @ijurresearch.bsky.social : www.ijurr.org/book_review/...

My review of Fictions of Financialization by Nick Bernards. www.ijurr.org/book_review/...

"What we are witnessing in Los Angeles is not only a protest; it is self-defense." Fuck yeah, @melissagiragrant.com. Read and share this. newrepublic.com/article/1963...

I wrote about Toronto’s bubble zone bylaw for @canadiandimension.bsky.social TL;DR: it’s bad, but probably not (just) for the reasons you think it is

"In 1979...government passed an amendment to the Trade Union Act, which became known as the Michelin Bill. The bill decreed that in order to unionize, any company with multiple locations in Nova Scotia must sign up a majority of employees across all locations" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“Financial landlords” in Toronto are the most aggressive type of landlord when it comes to raising rent prices, a new study at the University of Waterloo has found.

Jason Kenney on the CBC panel is sinister

“I think the profit goes to the investors … that’s where the extra money that they want to charge goes to, not to the maintenance of the building or for the tenants at all,” says Mohan.

Got that one out of the way

anti-eviction struggles are an affront to the YIMBY project

A struggle in one working-class district in Toronto has done more to illuminate the housing question in this city than all the recent punditry, spilled ink, and activist conferences on the topic combined www.torontotoday.ca/local/real-e...

#New: Dozens of rent strikers in Thorncliffe Park are facing eviction over withholding rent. They want their landlord, Starlight, to drop its above guideline rent increases. They also say the developer of the new Downsview Airport lands is implicated. Why? www.torontotoday.ca/local/real-e...

The "wartime approach" argument is unconvincing because it leaves out how exceptional policies were based on massive industrial and urban expansion and rising incomes during the war and were responding to a historic strike wave, conditions unlike those that confront us today

Event coming up April 22 at 11am eastern time, I am presenting new work “Household Production and the Essence of Separation that Appears in Commodities” at the virtual symposium Critical Perspectives on care: SRT in a Global Context www.cpcsymposium.com/event-detail...

Parkdale tenants at 103 & 105 West Lodge defended neighbours from pandemic evictions and forced Hazelview to stop hoarding vacant units. Tenants at Starlight-owned buildings at 71, 75, and 79 Thorncliffe Park Dr. are now on rent strike against AGIs

Today, I attended an open meeting in a proletarian district of the city where organizers argued against electoralism and reliance on politicians and other intermediaries in their struggles. The contrast with the condescension and demoralization that pervades the Left was striking

Very good documentary about urban displacement in Hamilton from the LRT project there trainwreckfilm.ca

NEW: Another tenant victory. Today, an LTB tribunal ruled that a tenant who has been in her home 47 years will be allowed to stay. The corporate landlord applied for an eviction to make way for a corporate director’s son, but the adjudicator said no dice. www.torontotoday.ca/local/real-e...

extremely

Impressive www.torontotoday.ca/local/real-e...

one of key functions of immigration raids & crackdowns is not to actually deport all migrants/refugees but to deepen conditions of social precarity & labor deportability. to make migrants more vulnerable to exploitation from bosses & landlords & banks, and to create scapegoats for austerity policies

You're telling me that the Landlord and Tenant Board, a tribunal that processes the evictions of tens of thousands of Ontario tenants each year, is run by tyrants?

Good article about one of the ways landlords seek to avoid rent control. I think it can be thought of in the same light as 'Eigenbedarf' (own-use) evictions or landlords forcing tenants to sign a second contract to rent a kellar space.

Update on the rent strikers at Thorncliffe Park, TO. www.thestar.com/news/gta/ana...

A start would be supporting organized working-class people in their demand that their landlords, Starlight and PSP, withdraw the above guideline rent increase applications at the buildings